At the University of Manchester a community of practice has been set up embedding sustainability across the curriculum and in teaching. This is a recording of some of the presentations which were given. As the realisation sets in across the globe that we can no longer afford to be wasteful in the way we live, the question is recurring as to what ways of life we transition to and how. Read more…
I was recently invited to sit in on a meeting of the Community of Practice at University of Manchester which is thinking through how to embed Sustainability across the curriculum. This area of thinking and study is massively relevant as it connects with each and every human and living thing on the planet. How we move into greater synergy with our environment and life supporting bio-systems is an emerging field which is complex and multi-disciplinary.
This is a podcast of a panel session chaired by Dr Andrew Whitworth (Manchester Institute of Education) entitled Information Inequalities: do they exist and are they a problem for Manchester? This session considers how policies other than strictly ‘education’ policies can impact upon access to informational resources, and thus the learning capacity of communities. Read more…
The University of Manchester Library has been running a credit-bearing course unit called The Digital Society for the past two years as part of the University College programme.
